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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 3068      2015 Mar 29 13.50UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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ROSETTA OBSERVING CAMPAIGN
Dr. Colin Snodgrass, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK provides an update
on campaign status for Rosetta:

A healthy number of proposals have been submitted for observing time around
perihelion and into 2016. These include a large international time proposal
for Canary Islands telescopes and 4 proposals to ESO, plus Keck, IRAM and
Gemini. 

The amateur campaign has its own webpage now:
http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov/rosetta-ground-based-campaign . A FTP archive
for collecting amateur images is in the works and should be ready soon.
Earliest recovery of the comet by amateurs who like a challenge (i.e. many
of the best ones) is possible in April.

Related to this, there will be a conference attended by some of the leading
European amateurs in the Czech Republic in June, the weekend before the next
SWT. If anyone would like to go and present on the pro 67P campaign then
please let me know. More details at
http://www.smph.cz/events/European-comet-conference-Ondrejov-2015

I set up a Doodle to get preferences for the next campaign meeting, in the
latter part of this year. Please express your likely availability here:
http://doodle.com/3inv458d3y9qdb48
colin.snodgrass@open.ac.uk

VY AQUARII
VY Aqr has been detected by ASASSN in outburst:
2015 Mar 28.409 11.65V; 2015 Mar 28.910 11.66V
Guy M Hurst